Well, we're back from Platina safe and sound! The weekend was a good one. It took forever for us to get up there and then to get back down to the LA area, but the trip was fun and the time at St. Herman's was really good too. Having two little kids in the car made for an adventure, but overall they were really sweet and cute and not that big of a ( Read more... )

"The Baroness is broke Dee." That sums up my day. (Sans the baroness, the beauty of the Kenyan Highlands, the coffee plantation, and the security of a country to go home to ( Read more... )

...to hate America. I hate America because of my forced dependency on cars in this blasted country. I hate this dependency on badly made, deteriorated rubber crap because it does just that (deteriorates). I hate deterioration because it results in flat tires moments after finding out I can't work at all until I get proper boots. And in me using ( Read more... )